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ADELAIDE’S ONLINE DAI LY NEWS PAP ER Friday 28th August 2009 Pay rate concerns Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has bowed to concerns that award modernisation could cut pay and conditions or force costs up in several key industries. Ms Gillard has written to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) asking for changes to draft awards it has made for the horticultural, banking, retail and pharmacy sectors. Employers in the horticulture industry, which includes fruit picking and packing, are concerned the new award fails to recognise accepted industry practices. These include payment of piece rates - a fixed price for a fixed amount of work - the seasonal nature of the work and the need for roster flexibility. Unions have also won a reprieve for call centre workers in the banking industry after concerns that IN BRIEF Girl dies in ski accident A 16-year-old girl has died after skiing into a gum tree at a ski resort in the NSW Snowy Mountains. Police say the girl, who was wearing a helmet, was skiing down a black diamond run at Perisher Blue ski resort about 1pm yesterday when she lost control and hit a tree. She is the second teenage girl in a month to hit a tree and die while skiing at a NSW resort. Threat to flu plan The Federal Government’s plan to immunise the population against swine flu is under threat because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the injections. Insurers say inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading infections means there is too high a risk that patients will sue, Fairfax newspapers report. The government has refused to underwrite doctors’ liability for the vaccinations. stimulus Primary schools are the big winners following a review of the federal government’s stimulus package, but social housing and home energy efficiency programs will Schools win in Fed lose out. Six months after the unveiling of Labor’s 42 billion dollar nation building stimulus package the commonwealth coordinator general has recommended $1.5 billion of savings be found. shifting them to a call centre workers award would mean a cut in pay. And retail and pharmacy workers have also had their concerns acknowledged over fears that the merger of differing weekend and overtime penalty rates across the states into a single rate would lead to higher wage costs. The AIRC has been asked to rationalise, and modernise, about 2400 federal and state industrial awards into 130 awards setting national rates of pay and conditions. They are set to come into force from January 1 next year. - AAP HENDRIK GOUT - MURRAY RIVER FISH